EC pushes ahead with linking EPIC & Aadhaar in line with lawThe Election Commission (EC) is moving to link the Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC) with Aadhaar while ensuring compliance with legal p...
18 Mar, 2025, 11.34 PM IST
Three EPIC hurdles in Aadhaar linkingThe Election Commission considers linking Aadhaar and voter ID cards but faces privacy concerns, legal amendments, and political opposition...
17 Mar, 2025, 08.30 AM IST
EC to talk Aadhaar seeding for voter IDs with top officials on TuesdayThe Election Commission will meet with key officials on March 18 to discuss linking voter IDs with Aadhaar cards. Amid political concerns o...
15 Mar, 2025, 10.33 PM IST
CEC Gyanesh Kumar calls for discussion with Home Secretary, CEO UIDAI on linking of EPIC and Aadhaar on March 18Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar will discuss the linking of EPIC and Aadhaar with key officials on March 18. The Election Commiss...
15 Mar, 2025, 01.03 PM IST
Linking of Aadhaar with voter IDs not yet begun: GovernmentThe Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021 allows electoral registration officers to require the existing or prospective elector to provide th...
08 Dec, 2023, 09.34 PM IST
Linking Aadhaar to voter card: SC asks Cong leader Surjewala to approach HCCongress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala, who has challenged the Election Law (Amendment) Act, 2021 that enables linking of electoral roll d...
25 Jul, 2022, 03.27 PM IST
Linking of Aadhaar & Voter ID may be made mandatoryElection commission plans to propose amendments to the Representation of the People Act.
13 Dec, 2018, 05.12 PM IST
Let Aadhaar-voter ID link be voluntary, Election Commission may tell Supreme CourtAccording to insiders, Election Commission is looking at offering incentives to voters who would link their Aadhaar numbers to voter ID car...
04 Apr, 2018, 12.35 PM IST
Don't link Aadhaar with voter ID: Ravi Shankar Prasad"I am not saying this as an IT minister... My personal opinion is Aadhaar should not be linked with the voter ID card," the IT minister sai...
02 Apr, 2018, 11.00 AM IST
Get passport in a week by giving four documentsPolice verification of such applications will be conducted after the passport is issued. There will be no extra charge for the service.
28 Jan, 2016, 11.10 AM IST
NERPAP: Election Commission not to link poll rolls to Aadhaar dataThe EC has suspended its five-month-old project to clean the electoral rolls by linking voter I-card details with Aadhaar data.
15 Aug, 2015, 08.37 AM IST
Election Commission looks at December deadline for linking Aadhaar with voter ID cardThe EC clarified that the Aadhaar-EPIC seeding exercise was completely voluntary, as per the Supreme Court's directions.
10 Aug, 2015, 12.21 PM IST
Police verification for issue/renewal of passports to go onlineThis is in line with Prime Minister's recent direction to the foreign and home ministries to work towards quicker processing of passport se...
13 Jul, 2015, 10.45 AM IST
Maharashtra electoral office to link voter IDs with Aadhaar cardsThe drive, which started last month, may also help in giving voters an option to cast their franchise online in future, an senior electoral...
24 Apr, 2015, 11.20 AM IST
Now EPIC or Aadhaar document enough to get PAN cardBoth these photo ID cards were only considered as valid proof for substantiating the "identity" and "address" of an individual and not thei...
20 Apr, 2015, 06.27 PM IST
India to be 1st country in world to have complete biometric of voters"...More than lakhs daily. We do not want to make it compulsory but our voters themselves want it. It is a good gesture," the CEC said.
21 Mar, 2015, 08.35 PM IST
Election Commission drive to link electoral rolls with Aadhaar on March 3According to data furnished to EC by UIDAI, only 50 crore of the country's 85 crore electors have enrolled for Aadhaar so far.
28 Feb, 2015, 10.31 AM IST